Monumental Italians

Machiavelli, Risorgimento and nation-building in Chile

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9815166
AutoresPatricia Vilches (0000-0002-8769-7298, Lawrence University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen47
Número2
Páginas346-363
Fecha de publicación2013-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaForum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-5858 • E-ISSN: 2168-989X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0014585813484251
OpenAlexW2039194408
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas19

‘Thus, one should not let this opportunity pass, for Italy, after so much time, to see her redeemer. I cannot express with what love he would be received in all those provinces that have suffered from these floods from outside’ (Machiavelli and Mansfield, 1998: 105). Using the theories of Niccolò Machiavelli, I study in this article, from a transatlantic perspective, Italians who helped build the Chilean nation. Italians did not emigrate to Chile on a grand scale; however, the success of those immigrants is a study in fortuna and virtù. Those honored by Chile with ‘monuments,’ or those who built edifices of their own, such as Pastene, Rondizzoni and Toesca, among others, can be called ‘monuments of Italian identity’ in Chile. In this context, Machiavelli's oeuvre serves as a rhetorical framework for understanding the actions of Italians who fought for and helped shape the Chilean nation

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Emigration · Ethnology · Fortuna · Genealogy · Humanities · Identity (music · Immigration · Literature · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Theology · Classics · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America